The proposal to create a jointly owned cloud services business drew the ire of VMware investors worried it would further erode the company's stock. Read more »

The updated service offers much better scalability and price/performance than its predecessor, Google claims. Read more »

Optimizations slash the time it takes to upload backup data to Microsoft's cloud and reduce the service's cache storage penalty. Read more »

Elastic announced that its stack—including Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana—is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Read more »

The WordPress 4.4 release includes a number of features that provide improved extensibility for content. Images are also getting more responsive. Read more »

When it comes to the cloud, the software giant extends its embrace of Linux to include a new certification for budding cloud administrators. Read more »

IBM can now count Giant Eagle among its growing list of cloud customers, as Big Blue works to overhaul the supermarket chain's IT operations. Read more »

Privacy authorities in four European countries join Belgium to demand that Facebook stop setting cookies for non-members, despite Facebook's claim that this is a security measure. Read more »

The software giant showcases people, not products, on Yahoo's popular social microblogging site. Read more »